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The Adventure of the Missing Three Quarter, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, c1904. This is an autograph fair copy of the story, first published in the Strand Magazine for August 1904, and reprinted in 1905 in "The Return of Sherlock Holmes". 'We were fairly accustomed to receive weird telegrams at Baker Street but I have a particular recollection of one which reached us on a gloomy February morning some or eight years ago, and gave Mr. Sherlock Holmes a puzzled quarter of an hour. It was addressed to him, and ran thus: Please await me. Terrible misfortune. Right wing three-quarter missing, indispensable to-morrow. OVERTON. "Strand postmark, and dispatched ten thirty-six," said Holmes, reading it over and over. "Mr. Overton was evidently considerably excited when he sent it, and somewhat incoherent in consequence. Well, well, he will be here, I daresay, by the time I have looked through the Times, and then we shall know all about it. Even the most insignificant problem would be welcome in these stagnant days." Things had indeed been very slow with us, and I had learned to dread such periods of inaction, for I knew by experience that my companion's brain was so abnormally active that it was dangerous to leave it without material upon which to work...'.
Date
1904
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM25A15_138
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NA
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NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
50,7Mo (2,7Mo) / 28,5cm x 44,5cm / 3366 x 5260 (300dpi)